Hosted by Professor Patrick Murray.
Prof Michaela Higgins graduated from UCD Medicine in 2002 and is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin and a Clinical Professor at UCD. She completed a three-year fellowship in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland and was then appointed as an Attending (Consultant) Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Prof Higgins was also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston from 2010 to 2014.
Prof Higgins specialises in the care of patients with breast cancer and is current President of the Irish Society of Medical Oncology (ISMO).
Join Prof Higgins and Prof Murray as they discuss her ever-present desire to be a doctor and how the passing of her father after her leaving certificate contributed to her focus on oncology. She talks about being in the privileged position of working with close friends and fondly recalls her time as a UCD student.
Prof Bill Powderly graduated from UCD Medicine in 1979. He was Dean of Medicine and Head of the UCD School of Medicine from 2005 – 2012. He is the Dr. J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine and the Larry J Shapiro Director of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.
An expert in infectious diseases, he has been actively involved in HIV-related clinical research for over 35 years and oversaw Washington University’s clinical and translational research response to SARS CoV-2. He was lead PI for the NIH’s ACTIV trials of immunomodulators in the treatment of severe COVID.
Join Prof Powderly and Prof Murray as they reminisce about studying, discuss Prof Powderly’s career path and remember the legacy of his time as Dean, introducing the White Coat Ceremony and the Graduate Entry Programme among many other initiatives.